Physical Address
Pearly Beach
Western Cape
7220
A few days ago, the sky over the Overstrand turned a shade of grey we won’t soon forget. The Cut-off Low of May 2026 brought a relentless force that tested the very foundations of our region.
The 6th Creative Napier Art Route ended yesterday, April 27th, leaving behind a trail of sawdust, charcoal, and stories. But perhaps no story is more evocative of the "Tide" in our name than the jewelry of Ben Goodwin.
The R82 million Cape Agulhas Lighthouse Precinct Development—delivered through a partnership between the Department of Tourism and SANParks—was launched not just as a capital project, but as a statement of intent: to shift the country’s tourism gravity beyond its traditional anchors and into places where history, landscape, and community intersect.
Fernkloof Nature Reserve sits above Hermanus like an archive—layered, precise, and quietly alive with process. As part of the Cape Floral Kingdom, the smallest yet most diverse of the world’s six floral kingdoms, nothing here feels hurried. The work unfolds in its own time, shaped by the long memory of fynbos, a system containing over 9,000 species, nearly 70% of which are found nowhere else on Earth.
At Air Force Base Overberg near Bredasdorp this past weekend, the South African Air Force (SAAF) opened its gates first to school learners on Friday, 20 March, before hosting a full Innovation Tech Show on Saturday. Across both days, the message was clear: aviation in South Africa is not just about legacy—it’s about continuity.
There are days along this coast when everything aligns—the light, the temperature, the absence of wind—and the landscape seems briefly suspended in a kind of clarity. This was one of those days.
We set off from Skulpiesbaai beach on a warm 28°C afternoon under an uninterrupted blue sky, walking east along the De Kelders cliffs towards the Drip Caves.
Later this month the skies above the Overberg will host something a little different. On 21 March 2026, Air Force Base Overberg will open its gates for the first South African Air Force Technology Show, an event designed to showcase the future of aviation, robotics and aerospace technology in South Africa.
There’s a mountain that rises steeply behind Groeneweide Farm near Franskraal, just outside Gansbaai. Most people know the farm for its weekly Parkrun – runners and walkers gathering early on Saturday mornings among the fields and coastal fynbos.
While the world’s attention was recently fixed on the powerful right-handers of Agadir, Morocco, for the opening event of the 2026 IBC World Tour, a parallel story was unfolding on the pristine sands of Voëlklip Beach in Hermanus. It was a story of a global champion returning to his roots to spark a passion for the ocean in the next generation.
Peter Becker, introduced not as a nuclear engineer but as someone who “understands the science” and who has spent 15 years engaged in anti-nuclear activism was in attendance. He began by refusing the easy framing.
